How to query the Google Analytics Reporting API?

Question

PHP

Good day!
There is a task: to connect the site visitor with the data that google analytics has collected from him.
Found a great solution that suits me perfectly .
The problem is that I do not understand how I can execute the request from the example from PHP.
Here is the code from the example of an introduction to this whole thing, maybe it will help somehow

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function getReport($analytics) {
 
  // Replace with your view ID, for example XXXX.
  $VIEW_ID = "<REPLACE_WITH_VIEW_ID>";
 
  // Create the DateRange object.
  $dateRange = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_DateRange();
  $dateRange->setStartDate("7daysAgo");
  $dateRange->setEndDate("today");
 
  // Create the Metrics object.
  $sessions = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_Metric();
  $sessions->setExpression("ga:sessions");
  $sessions->setAlias("sessions");
 
  // Create the ReportRequest object.
  $request = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_ReportRequest();
  $request->setViewId($VIEW_ID);
  $request->setDateRanges($dateRange);
  $request->setMetrics(array($sessions));
 
  $body = new Google_Service_AnalyticsReporting_GetReportsRequest();
  $body->setReportRequests( array( $request) );
  return $analytics->reports->batchGet( $body );
}

Answer 1

If I understood everything correctly, then you just need to send a POST request with the required fields.
The easiest option is via curl
https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.curl-init.php